Therapy is essential to this human’s long-term health and well-being.
I was an unwilling patient as a child.My “therapy” in those days was a form of abuse, a term which I don’t use lightly.My mother wished to control me, to manipulate me, and to put my rejection of her inappropriate relation with me onto me…and to get me medicated.
Thank goodness we grow up, develop agency, and find independence.And for some of us, the ones who are not too far gone, we can begin the long arduous process of healing.
“We spend our first decades of life with our parents and the rest of our lives trying to get over them.”
Woody Allen
I include this quote from Woody Allen not without a hint of irony. It kind of puzzles me the universal truth in that statement.Surely, the universality of this statement is problematic.Is this a social ill?Or are…
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